Germany: Fettabsaugvorrichtung (Liposuction Apparatus), Federal Court of Justice of Germany, X ZR 84/14, 20 December 2016

The Federal Court of Justice held in the present case that it was not relevant whether it is possible to escape a declaration of nullity due to added matter under certain circumstances, as recently affirmed in FCJ X ZR 161/12 Wundbehandlungsvorrichtung, since the subject matter in dispute was directly and unambiguously derivable from the originally filed application.

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